He went up to Christ’s College Cambridge to study composition and graduated with an MA and a B Mus, to add to his FRCM and FRCO, four years later and was all set for a career in serious and ecclesiastical music. By the time he was eighteen he was already director of Music and resident organist at St Anne’s church in London’s Soho. His original ambition was to obtain a choral appointment at that cathedral, but at the age of fifteen he took up a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music in London. He won a music scholarship to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield at the age of eight and subsequently often deputised for the choir master at Wakefield Cathedral. ![]() He was captivated by the family piano before his legs were long enough to reach the pedals and was excelling in music before he was old enough to begin ordinary lessons. ![]() Reginald Moxon Armitage was born on 15 July 1898 at Park Terrace, Leeds Road, Outwood, Wakefield the son of Harry Armitage, a colliery clerk, and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth Moxon.
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